Assessing Drought Impacts on Water Storage Changes from New GRACE Mascons Solutions and Regional Groundwater Modeling in the Central Valley of California

Zizhan Zhang1, Claudia C Faunt2, Bridget R Scanlon1, Himanshu Save3, David N Wiese4, Michael D Dettinger5, Laurent Longuevergne6 and Steven A Margulis7, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)USGS California Water Science Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States, (6)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (7)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States